RT Chapter 68

Chapter 68 Don’t Be Afraid

Shu Lin’s crying broke Shu Jingcheng and Shu Lingxiao’s hearts. Both of them felt a pang of sorrow.

Shu Jingcheng was a sentimental person, pouring his heart and soul into loving his Omega son.

He truly held him in his palm, afraid he’d freeze, kept him in his mouth, afraid he’d melt, unwilling to let him suffer even a little hardship or grievance.

But this child had been well-behaved, gentle, polite, and sensible since he was little, and he also grew up to be outstandingly handsome, one could say everyone loved him.

Shu Lingxiao was an Alpha, and she also loved this Omega brother, eight years her junior, to the extreme.

She had always been the sister Shu Lin was proud of.

At seventeen, she began studying at the most famous law school in the empire, and at twenty-one, she entered the Imperial Capital Procuratorate’s Public Prosecution Section with the highest score.

When Shu Lin differentiated into a US-Class Omega at fifteen, she had already been working for two years.

She was the first to react and apply for a virtual identity for Shu Lin.

She was also the one who used her accumulated resources at the time to promptly prevent Shu Lin’s identity from being exposed before the virtual identity was processed.

As a prosecutor in the Public Prosecution Section of the Procuratorate, she knew better than anyone that if Shu Lin’s US-Class Omega identity was exposed, he would be in constant danger of being sexually assaulted by unscrupulous Alphas.

It was impossible to guard against it.

Fortunately, with her and her father’s efforts, these risks were minimized.

Who would have thought that Shu Lin would exchange the secret they had tried so hard to hide, precisely for her and her father’s sake?

Things didn’t go as people wished.

In order not to make them blame themselves, Shu Lin was always happy in front of them after living with Shao Chengxi.

She was a person with strong insight and could see that at the beginning, Shu Lin was pretending.

Slowly, Shu Lin’s condition improved, and the smiles on his face were genuine.

He was a person who couldn’t hide things on his face. Good was good, and unhappy was unhappy.

The world was simple.

This was the happy appearance they wanted him to become.

Through their discerning observation, Shao Chengxi, and the Shao family, were indeed very good to Shu Lin.

However, today, Shu Lin’s crying confession brought the self-blame buried deep in their hearts to the surface.

So, he wasn’t happy being with Shao Chengxi.

After saying that he wanted to be an ungrateful person, Shu Lin threw himself into Shu Jingcheng’s arms, crying uncontrollably.

The crying sounded like pain squeezed from the depths of his heart.

His shoulders trembled violently, and tears soaked Shu Jingcheng’s clothes.

Shu Jingcheng held his precious son, patting his back to comfort him, his eyes also wet.

Shu Lingxiao was relatively calm, sitting beside Shu Lin, rubbing his hair, and gently coaxing:

“Xiao Lin, be good, don’t cry first, tell me and Dad, what exactly happened? If Shao Chengxi did something to wrong you, whatever you do, Dad and I will support you.”

Shu Lin’s abnormality must be related to Shao Chengxi.

Shu Jingcheng also coaxed him, “Son, your sister is right, tell Dad, did Shao Chengxi do something to wrong you? Tell me, Dad will back you up and settle the score with him, be good, don’t cry first.”

Slowly, Shu Lin raised his head from Shu Jingcheng’s arms, his eyes swollen like peaches, teary-eyed, his small mouth twitched, and he sobbed intermittently:

“He… he slept with another Omega…”

Before he could finish speaking, the crying drowned out his voice again.

Shu Jingcheng and Shu Lingxiao’s eyes flared with anger when they heard this.

They both hated infidelity in relationships the most.

Very tacitly, the two looked at each other and understood each other’s decision.

If that were the case, they had to get divorced.

Shu Jingcheng never compromised in this regard.

Back then, after he discovered that his Alpha was cheating, he ended their ten-year marriage within a few days.

He wouldn’t compromise, and he would never let his child suffer this grievance.

After a long while, when Shu Lin’s emotions stabilized a little, he told them what he had discovered last night.

After speaking, he was still choking:

“Dad, Sister… I know that Shao Chengxi saved our family, and divorcing him is ungrateful of me.”

“But… but he slept with another Omega, I, I can’t stand sleeping in the same bed with such a person anymore. I don’t want to sleep in the same bed with him anymore, don’t want to, don’t want to…”

Shu Lin shook his head, aggrieved and terrified.

Shu Jingcheng wiped away his tears, “Xiao Lin, don’t cry, we won’t stand this disgusting thing, with Dad here, don’t be afraid, Dad will make the decision for you, we are definitely getting this divorce.”

Shu Lin’s crying stopped, his voice with a strong nasal sound, looking at them uneasily, “But, if I divorce him, will it affect you and Sister?”

Shu Jingcheng gave him a “put your heart at ease” look:

“We married into the Shao family, not for their money or power, what influence could it have on us?”

“The betrothal gifts the Shao family gave you, we haven’t touched a single cent, we’ll return all of it with interest, we won’t take a single cent from them, and we’ll settle everything.”

Shu Lingxiao was afraid that he would overthink, and immediately followed up:

“The Shao family’s help to my career is just the icing on the cake, not the brocade itself. The brocade picture of my career has always been woven by myself, without relying on anyone.”

“Don’t worry about your sister, only when you are well, will your sister be willing to pick that flower from the Shao family. If you are not well, no matter how beautiful that flower is, your sister won’t bother to look at it.”

“Also, your sister wants to correct a wrong idea of yours.”

“Your being with Shao Chengxi was based on a transaction, that’s right, but when he chose to fix the transaction in the form of marriage, the nature of the matter changed, one thing is one thing.”

Shu Lin didn’t understand, “Sister, what do you mean?”

Shu Lingxiao patiently said:

“What your sister means is that from the moment you two registered your marriage, your relationship changed from a transaction to a marital contract relationship protected by marriage law.”

“The transaction factor does not affect your being bound by marriage law.”

“In this marital relationship, if either party violates the obligation of loyalty stipulated by marriage law, the other party has the right to legally protect their legitimate rights and interests.”

“It will not be because there is a transaction factor that one party is indefinitely exempted from their legal obligations.”

“In other words, Shao Chengxi’s cheating violates the legal obligation of loyalty, and you have the right to file for divorce according to law.”

“Whether from a moral or legal point of view, there is no such thing as you being ungrateful, understand?”

Her words made Shu Lin suddenly enlightened.

Finally, he completely stopped the tears that kept pouring out of his eyes.

Out of professional instinct, Shu Lingxiao added:

“However, Xiao Lin, if you want to divorce Shao Chengxi smoothly, you must collect relevant evidence of his cheating as soon as possible.”

“You just said that you smelled the pheromones of another Omega on his clothes, and on his body.”

“The matter of his body is more difficult to handle. Let’s talk about his clothes first. Where are those clothes? Can you find them now?”

“This is preliminary evidence, if they are washed, then…”

Afterward, Shu Lin hurried back to the Shao Residence.